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Old 04-10-2005, 06:12 PM in reply to rineet's post starting "Indian cricket is going to suffer if..."
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Originally Posted by rineet
Indian cricket is going to suffer if both Chappell and Ganguly are going to serve India together. They have no respect for each other especially after this fiasco. Only BCCI will support useless cases like Ganguly. They should take a cue from other countries like Australia, who have dropped Damien Martyn for the super series. Remember Martyn`s form before the ashes: awesome. Even the great Steve Waugh was asked to quit captaincy after a failure in one VB series against South Africa and New Zealand. If Indian cricket has to progress, then Ganguly should be sacked if he doesnt quit out of his own will. He simply has no future and he can never come back to form. He is finished as a cricketer. Chappell has a vision of seeing the Indian team lift the 2007 WC. His opinions will be frank and not machiavellistic like Gangulys' whose main aim is to secure his position in the Indian team. Ganguly will go to any length to achieve his goal, even if it means that the team performs badly and promising players are kept out. It's time for some radical changes to be implemented by and within the BCCI.
This is not about whether or not Ganguly is out-of-form it is about how Chappell thinks and acts. You don't just ask an international captain to step down in the middle of the tour or leak information about players to certain journalists. You don't just end a player's career on a whim in the middle of the tour. Nobody, especially, someone like Ganguly who has served India for so long deserves that. There's a time and place for such discussion -- the middle of tour isn't that.